{"id":62721,"date":"2014-03-20T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T08:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62721"},"modified":"2014-03-20T10:41:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T08:41:52","slug":"mssa-announces-dota-2-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62721-mssa-announces-dota-2-trials","title":{"rendered":"MSSA announces DOTA 2 trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have what it takes to fight for Nkandla and country on the battlefields of Dota 2?<\/p>\n<p>Mind Sports South Africa have announced that players will have the opportunity to qualify for the Dota 2 national team on\u00a019 April 2014, during the MWEB Dota 2 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The national team trials are open to any player registered to an\u00a0MSSA affiliated club, and entry is free.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Negotiations are under way in securing test match opponents. Rumours abound that once again the team will have to face the mighty Romanians as well as the Russians. If that happens, we\u2019re going to need the best players to answer the challenge!&#8221; said MSSA general secretary\u00a0Colin Webster.<\/p>\n<p>2013&#8217;s Protea team took on\u00a0Romania and Mexico, and was mostly made up of players from\u00a0Bravado (bvd) and Energy eSports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;d also like thank MWEB for their continued support for gaming in South Africa,&#8221; said Webster.<\/p>\n<p>Webster said entries must be submitted by 15 April 2014.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Colours<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Protea Colours:<\/strong> Only Players that are selected to represent South Africa in International Championships may earn National Colours if the Protea Colours Board&#8217;s criteria are met.<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Colours:<\/strong> All Players that win all of their Matches at a National Championship will earn National Colours.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Provincial Colours:<\/strong> All Players that win all of their Matches at a Provincial Championship will earn Provincial Colours. All Players who score within the top 50% in a specific Period at a Provincial Championship, and who also score within the top 50% at a National Championship in the same period and in the same year, will earn Provincial Colours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62695-gog-com-to-launch-and-support-linux-games.html\">GOG.com to launch and support Linux games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62708-new-assassins-creed-screenshots-leaked.html\">New Assassin\u2019s Creed screenshots leaked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62707-gdc-2014-winners-announced.html\">GDC 2014 winners announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 MWEB Online DOTA 2 Championship will take place on 19 April 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":51849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2218,2070,12161,7239],"class_list":["post-62721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-dota-2","tag-mssa","tag-national-trials","tag-protea-e-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62722,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62721\/revisions\/62722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}